Can I repair trainer soles?

[Merlin5]

There's an inch split on the sole of the left shoe of my favourite red adidas superstars. It's letting water in. I'd buy another pair except you can't buy them anymore in this colour. Can a shoe mender fix it? Perhaps he'll have some heavy duty glue/sealant/resin?

 

[Liverpool-Lad]

Try some contact adhesive? Evo Stick.

 

[Merlin5]

Try some contact adhesive? Evo Stick.

Don't know. It needs to be some sort of compound that would cover a gap of a few millimetres. This might work. http://allpurposeadhesive.co.uk/12-shoe-goo.html but I'll see what the local cobbler says on monday.

 

[4T5]

Can I repair trainer soles?

Are you a ***** ?

 

[Mr-White]

Are you a ***** ?

or Keanu Reeves ?

MW

 

[doofer]

Try some contact adhesive? Evo Stick.

Just do it.

 

[Merlin5]

Are you a ***** ?

Are you blind?

I'd buy another pair except you can't buy them any more in this colour.

 

[wazza300]

put your foot in a carrier bag then put your shoe on

 

[Deleted member 651465]

How long before the "contact adhesive in my shoe.. Foot stuck!! Help?!!" Thread

 

[Randomface74]

no

 

[Hades]

Worth a try but realistically the repair probably won't last long.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Time to embrace some new trainers, they are never meant to last forever anyway.

 

["andy"]

Fill the gap with sealant from the inside , let sealant dry , profit

patch it and never let anyone see the bottom of your trainer ever

Unstitch the whole sole and replace with sole from new but wrong colour shoe

 

[dacads]

Find out if your local market has a shoe mender, not sure what they would use though probably just your average super glue

p.s you should never have expected a serious reply in GD

 

[W!ll]

If you really want to join it back together, look for a product called Shoe Goo. Just bought and used some myself to fix some skate shoes and five ten mountain bike shoes, it works really well.

 

[Merlin5]

If you really want to join it back together, look for a product called Shoe Goo. Just bought and used some myself to fix some skate shoes and five ten mountain bike shoes, it works really well.

Yeah I read about that stuff earlier, good you can recommend it though.

 

[W!ll]

Just make sure you find a way to hold it together while it sticks! If you want to smooth it when you've applied it use an ice cube too, it'll smooth it but won't stick.

 

[WantoN]

Sugru. It's incredible.

 

[cjgardens]

Super glue? £1 nor local pound shop. Remember to post pictures of finger stuck to your trainer

 

[*Moangroan*]

super glue would be no good ....once you go out in the rain